LTO-8The Future of Storage is Here

Enhanced with Spectra’s Certified Media

Spectra’s Brand New LTO-8 Drive

Fibre Channel or SAS connectivity

Enhanced servo and data bands

Superior data compression

State-of-the-art LTO Ultrium TechnologyLinear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium is a high-capacity tape storage solution designed for dependability and cost efficiency. It’s a powerful, scalable and adaptable tape format that helps address the exponential data growth and storage challenges facing organizations today.

Advanced data encryption options

Double the capacity and

20% increase in performance

over LTO-7

Speed Matching – 112 MB/sec to 360 MB/sec

Longer lasting

electronics

New TMR Read/Write Head

enabling tape’s future

Full-Height drive shown (Half-height drive available)

Media & Drive Work Together

Highest Quality Media

CarbideClean® Reliability

Simplified Handling

MLM Health Tracking

Effortless Logistics

Security via Encryption

Data Integrity Verification

Lifetime Warranty

Measurable Savings

Our commitment is making tape storage pain-free through Spectra® Certified Media. From manufacturer selection to testing of each

tape and customer shipment, every step of the Spectra Certified Media process is designed to ensure you have the most reliable and automated tape storage

available. No other supplier places as much emphasis on continual enhancements and added features that simplify all aspects of the media management process.

Spectra media is vastly superior.

Coupled with Spectra Certified Media

Most stringent specs available

Every Tape Tested. (No batch testing)

What’s Different with LTO-8 ?

• Capacity doubled over LTO-7 – 6TB to 12TB

• Performance increase of 20% – 300 to 360MB/sec native data transfer rate

• Reliability increase – corrected bit error rate of 1.0 x 10-19

• Backward Read/Write compatibility to LTO-7

Why the change?• The new Tunnel Magnetoresistance Recording (TMR) Head:

– Delivers more write tracks and greater density

– Provides a multi-generational roadmap out to LTO-12

– Enables doubling of capacity with each new generation

The Future of Storage - Available Now

LTO-8 Drive Key Features

LTO-7 versus the New LTO-8 Drive

LTO-7 LTO-8

6 TB Native 15 TB Compressed

Doubles the capacity

12 TB Native 30 TB Compressed

300 MB/s Native 700 MB/s Compressed

Increases native transfer speed

360 MB/s Native* 750 MB/s Compressed

Bit Error Rate = 1.0x10-19 Same high level of data integrity Bit Error Rate = 1.0x10-19

32 Data Track Channels

Same number of channels

32 Data Track Channels

2.5 to 1Compression

ratio 2.5 to 1

Read/Write back to LTO-6 Reads LTO-5

Backward compatible

Read/Write back to LTO-7 Type M and LTO-7

* Half-height drives up to 300MB/s

What makes LTO-8 possible? The TMR Head

LTO-8 Advantages with TMR over GMR heads:

• Doubles the number of Read/Write tracks • Cooler operation• Increased capacity• Higher throughput

LTO-8 Advancements

• In a GMR element the current flows horizontally to the film surface, while it flows perpendicular to the film surface in a TMR element providing a better and more accurate data detection, and delivering a technology that can provide increased data density for generations to come.

• As with any storage technology, a plateau is eventually reached where further investment in the current technology only results in small density improvements and it becomes time to switch to a newer technology allowing order of magnitude growth.

• Tunneling Magnetoresistance [TMR] heads allow significantly more bit density on the tape and allow for more and more tightly spaced tracks.

...and how it’s different

LTO-8: The highest read/write speeds for tape

StorageManager

Fibre Channel (FC)Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

Up to 360 MB/s Native Transfer Rate

Up to 750 MB/s Compressed Transfer Rate

Automatic speed-matching ensures an uninterrupted, serial data stream regardless of the server’s capabilities.Storage

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... and Reliability 1 - 2 - 3

LTO-8 protects your data

Enterprise grade bit-error-rate LTO-8 has been designed and tested to show a 1.0 x 10-19 bit error rate.

Media Lifecycle Management Uses embedded RFID memory chip to track 40 different aspects of media reliability.

Spectra Certified Media Lengthens drive and media life by removing harmful debris.

Types of media supported by LTO-8 drives

LTO-7 LTO-8

An LTO-8 drive can initialize new, uniquely labeled LTO-7 tapes into LTO-7 Type M tapes with 9TB native capacity and 22.5TB compressed capacity.

Benefits of Spectra Certified LTO-7 Type M media:• Spectra has higher standards than anyone in the industry. Only Spectra Certified Media guarantees the reliability needed for long-term data storage.

• LTO-7 Type M media means lowest cost per GB of any tape media.

• LTO-7 Type M media reduces deployment cost of upgrading to a new tape technology through reduced media price.

• Certified Media ensures maximum drive life and media longevity.

LTO-7 Type M

How to Implement LTO-7 Type M media

LTO-7 Type M Functionality

Buy and install LTO-8 drives into your Spectra tape library

Create a new partition if needed

• Start by creating a new partition in your library with LTO-8 drives.• Load LTO-7 Type M media into your partition

Begin using ew LTO-7 Type M media

• Gaining 50% more capacity on each of your LTO-7 Type M tape cartridges • Utilize the lowest cost per GB of any LTO tape media

Buy Spectra LTO-7 Type M media.• Buy new Spectra Certified LTO-7 Type M media from Spectra• OR... Return new, unused LTO-7 tape to Spectra and Spectra can initialize and label the tapes, creating LTO-7 Type M media and send back to you

Turbo-charge your Spectra libraries with LTO-8

Native and Compressed Capacity by LTO Generation

Chart Above: Bolded numbers are native capacity and non-bolded numbers are compressed capacity

Library LTO-5 LTO-6 LTO-7 LTO-7 Type M LTO-8

T50e 75TB187TB

125TB312TB

300TB750TB

450TB1.12PB

600TB1.5PB

T120 180TB450TB

300TB750TB

720TB1.8PB

1.08PB2.7PB

1.4PB3.6PB

T380 570TB1.4PB

950TB2.4PB

2.3PB5.7PB

3.42PB8.55PB

4.5PB11.4PB

T680 1PB2.5PB

1.7PB4.2PB

4PB10PB

6.03PB15.07PB

8PB20PB

T950 (single frame)

1.5PB3.8PB

2.5PB6.3PB

5.5PB13.8PB

8.28PB20.7PB

11PB27.6PB

TFinity ExaScale (3-frame)

2.7PB5.4PB

4.5PB11.25PB

10.8PB27PB

16.2PB40.5PB

21.6PB54PB

TFinity ExaScale (44-frame)

80.1PB160PB

133PB334PB

320PB801PB

481PB1.2EB

641PB1.6EB

More Capacity = Less Space

LTO-8 Capacity

An existing T50e library with LTO-7 media holds 300TB of data and up to 750TB if compression is enabled and data is compressible.

That same T50e, when upgraded to LTO-8, holds twice the data – up to 1.5PB of compressed data!

On the high end, a 44-frame TFinity® ExaScale Tape Library can now hold

up to 1.6 EB of data with compression.

When should I buy LTO-8?

When to add LTO-8 drives?• Install LTO-8 drives as soon as your ISV passes Spectra’s LTO-8 certification.

• LTO-8 drives with LTO-7 Type M media provides a 50% capacity increase and an immediate 33% cost savings, so adding LTO-8 drives should happen as soon as possible

When to add LTO-8 media?• Depending on media pricing and business requirements you can immediately start using LTO-7, LTO-7 Type M and LTO-8.

• Depending on LTO-8 media pricing and whether your library is running out of physical space, you should start using LTO-7 Type M media now and change to LTO-8 media when it reaches a lower cost per GB.

Contact Spectra to implement a customized migration plan: sales@spectralogic.com

Options to consider when upgrading

LTO-8 Upgrading

Media purchase and usage:

• Purchase LTO-7 Type M media until the price per GB of LTO-8 media is less than the price per GB of LTO-7 Type M media.

• Consider using costs savings achieved with increased capacity media (of LTO-7 Type M) to fund the purchase of new LTO-8 drives.

Do I need to MIGRATE? Maybe... maybe not...

Reasons WHY

1) Space constraints 2) Out of drive slots 3) Critical archival data on older media 4) Always want to walk your data forward to keep it all current

Reasons WHY NOT

1) You want the lowest cost option - leave your existing drives and media as-is. Install LTO-8 drives in open drive slots and start using LTO-7 Type M media moving forward.

Media Cartridge Type Drive Type and What it Can Read or Write To

Cartridge Type

Cartridge Capacity

LTO-8 LTO-7 LTO-6 LTO-5

FH/HH (MB/s) FH/HH (MB/s) FH/HH (MB/s) FH/HH (MB/s)

LTO-8 12 TB R/W (360 / 300) - - -

LTO-8 WORM 12 TB R/W (360 / 300) - - -

LTO-7 Type M 9 TB R/W (300 / 300)

LTO-7 6 TB R/W (300 / 300) R/W (300 / 300) - -

LTO-7 WORM 6 TB R/W (300 / 300) R/W (300 / 300) - -

LTO-6 2.5 TB - R/W R/W -

LTO-6 WORM 2.5 TB - R/W R/W -

LTO-5 1.5 TB - Read only R/W R/W

LTO-5 WORM 1.5 TB - Read only R/W R/W

LTO-4 800 GB - - Read only R/W

LTO-4 WORM 800 GB - - Read only R/W

LTO-3 400 GB - - - Read only

LTO Tape and Drive Compatibility

FH = Full-Height Drive HH = Half-Height Drive WORM = Write Once Read Many

Drive & Media Compatibility Snapshot

LTO-8 DRIVE

LTO-7 DRIVE

LTO-6 DRIVE

LTO-5 DRIVE

LTO-8, LTO-7, LTO-7 Type M

LTO-7 LTO-6 LTO-5

LTO-6 LTO-5 LTO-4

LTO-5 LTO-4 LTO-3

Backward Compatibility

R/W R/W

Read

R/W R/W

R/W R/W

Read

R/W R/W

Read

Spectra Exclusive MigrationPass*

* With a minimum LTO-8 drive and media purchase.

Migrating your data from LTO-3, LTO-4, LTO-5, LTO-6 or LTO-7 using the hard or soft migration formula

• Free SLS license to enable separate library partitions ($5,000 value)

• Free 2-Hour migration consultation – Spectra Professional Services will remotely help you through the step-by-step hard migration process to make sure it goes smoothly

• 1 Free chamber license for each TWO LTO-8 drives purchased (Chamber = 10 slots for T200, T380,T680, T950, TFinity and 5 slots for T120 and T50e). This free chamber is a $1,000 value per 2 drives.

• Discounted LTO-8 drive pricing with trade-in

LTO-8 MigrationPass

LTO-8 Spectra Migration Example

Exis�ng tapes(LTO-3,4,5,6,7)

Exis�ng drives(LTO-3,4,5,6,7)

LTO-8 tapes

LTO-8 drives

Par��on 1 Par��on 2

Scenario 3 - LTO-8 Combo Migra�on

Backup, archiveor other applica�onsthat u�lize tape

If migra�ng data, restoreto primary disk

Archived databacked up to new LTO-8 or

LTO-7 Type M media

All New writesto LTO-8 or

LTO-7 Type M media

Old data “stacked” ontonew LTO-8 media

via tape-to-tape copytransparent to Primary Storage

(must be supported bybackup so�ware)

To understand the different migration scenarios that Spectra recommends, please see the Spectra Migration whitepaper on spectralogic.com

Spectra’s CarbideClean® performance boost...

Spectra Certified Media performs better than competitors’ media. The CarbideClean® process is a unique Spectra enhancement that extends

the life of your tape drives and enhances the performance and capacity of your tapes. Spectra Certified Media with CarbideClean® ensures your media is debris-free, allowing your system to run at peak performance.

Take off with CarbideClean®

Tape Surface Before CarbideClean.

LTO tape magnified at 1:5000. CarbideClean removes debris, maximizing the potential that every bit is written and read.

Microscopic Debris

Off To The Right Start

Tape Surface After CarbideClean.

Media Lifecycle Management

Spectra programmed chip stored in each tape cartridge tracks over 40 parameters

throughout the life of the tape.

With Spectra Certified Media, you’ll never get caught by surprise again. Certified Media combined with Media Lifecycle Management (MLM)

reduces the most common media-related failures, and can only be found with Spectra tape libraries. MLM allows you to proactively manage your

tape inventory through simple monitoring of over 40 health statistics and automatically identifies at-risk tapes ready for retirement.

Management Made Simple

Track Spectra tapes throughout their life.

MLM stoplight icons serve as easy visual diagnostics, recommending action based on the health status of a tape.

Poor Health

Average Health

Good Health

Data Integrity Assurance

With Spectra Certified Media, you’ll be confident that your data is there when you need it. Certified Media assures data integrity using an integrated, intelligent and comprehensive set of Data Integrity Verification (DIV) tools when integrated

with Spectra tape libraries. PreScan verifies your tapes are safe prior to usage and QuickScan and FullScan verify your data has been properly written to tape.

Available in Spectra T50e, T120, T200, T380, T680, T950, T950v, Spectra Stack and TFinity ExaScale Tape Libraries.

Verify that your data is there.

Management Made Simple

DIV tools scan a tape prior to usage to verify writability and confirm all data

has been laid down error-free.

Spectra and LTO will stick with you...

... far, far into the future.

LTO Long-Term Roadmap

LTO (Linear Tape-Open) Ultrium Technology is optimized for high capacity and performance with exceptional reliability. Spectra’s trust

in this technology for backup, deep storage and archive applications is demonstrated in our long-term commitment to LTO’s current and future

advancements. LTO technology will meet the needs of the enterprise with a roadmap and migration path that extends far into the future.

Beyond LTO-8, Spectra offers IBM® Technology

Spectra also can provide enterprise tape technology in its libraries...

IBM® TS1160 Tape Technology

IBM® TS is still an excellent option for:• Demanding, high performance applications• Superior electronic components throughout• Industry’s most reliable and with excellent mechanics• Most refined and tested electronics on the market • 20TB native per tape and 50TB compressed • 400 MB/s native transfer rate; 900 MB/s compressed

IBM® TS Provides:Greater media diversity, investment protection and has the ability to reformat USED media and still gain additional capacity. TS is written in LTFS – non-proprietary format to avoid vendor lock-in. It enables more efficient use of media – getting more out of your media through better ability to handle stopping and starting of writes. Enhanced ability to back-hitch and not lose space or capacity on each tape.

Effortless Media Logistics

Your Spectra Certified Media, LTO or IBM® TS, arrives on your doorstep, with pre-applied barcode labels and bundled in TeraPack® containers, ready for bulk loading into your Spectra tape library.

When it’s time to export them from the library, the TeraPacks can be covered and protected as they are stored onsite or offsite.

TeraPacks simplify media handling.

For even greater efficiency, our TeraPack Access Port can load up to 10 tapes at a time and our bulk-load option allows you to import and export up to 140 tapes at once. Spectra also offers a myriad of choices for your tape requirements. No minimum order, custom or predefined barcode labels, and TeraPacks with and without dust covers.

Loading TeraPacks into TAP Bulk TeraPack Access Port

LTO or TS: Spectra TeraPacks

Measurable Cost Savings with LTO-8

Because Spectra Certified Media provides many significant time and management efficiency benefits, it

lowers your tape-related operational expenses and allows your staff to

focus on high-value tasks.

More than pays for itself. Lower risk of data loss ($$$$$) Floor space savings ($$$$) Lower management costs ($$$$) Reduced staffing costs ($$$$) Reduced media failure downtime ($$$) Faster problem resolution ($$$) Fewer drive replacements ($$$) Longer useful media lifespan ($$$) More efficient tape operations ($$$) Higher media capacity ($$$) Zero staff time to label media ($$$) Efficient bulk-tape loading/unloading ($$$) Tape import and export efficiency ($$) Enhanced offsite tape processing ($$) Fewer drive failure related service calls ($$) Higher data transfer rate ($$) Greater staff efficiency ($$) Lower write error rates ($$) Fewer cleaning cartridges consumed ($) No duplicate barcode labels ($) Fewer media warranty claims ($) Encryption moniker tracker ($) Lower read error rates ($) Easier ordering ($) Easier storage ($)

Our Guarantee To You

spectralogic.com/spectra-tape-media

1. Media health 2. Barcode 3. Load count 4. Loaded 5. Born on date 6. Write protected 7. Encryption and moniker 8. Encryption key expiration 9. Media type10. Cleans remaining11. First write partition12. First write library13. Last write partition14. Last write library15. Remaining capacity16. Maximum capacity17. Soft write errors18. Soft read errors19. Remaining MAM capacity20. Current drive display21. Drive efficiency

Media Lifecycle Management Tracking Statistics

22. Media efficiency23. Drive status (last four)24. Last four load device s/n’s25. Last four load device efficiency26. Media s/n27. Compression ratio28. Exported29. Export user30. Export time31. Current partition32. Manufacturer33. Manufacturer data34. Tape generation35. Number of cleans36. Date of first CarbideClean®

37. Drive s/n of first CarbideClean® 38. Temperature of first CarbideClean®

39. Humidity of first CarbideClean®

40. Date of most recent CarbideClean®

41. Drive s/n of most recent CarbideClean®

Only available with Spectra Certified Media and Spectra libraries, Media Lifecycle Management monitors, tracks and reports on all facets of tape usage and health status to reduce tape-related errors, eliminate unscheduled downtime and increase the reliability of your backup and archive operations.

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